"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
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"Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts."
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
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"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."
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"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."
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"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right."
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"People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are."
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"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
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"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
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"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."
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"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."
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"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
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"Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come."
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"My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it."
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"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
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"When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'"
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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